Governments never learn. Only people learn.

Milton Friedman

You cannot be sure that you are right unless you understand the arguments against your views better than your opponents do.

Milton Friedman

I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.

Milton Friedman

There's no such thing as a free lunch.

Milton Friedman

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Milton Friedman

The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

Milton Friedman

Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own.

Milton Friedman

He moves fastest who moves alone.

Milton Friedman

We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.

Milton Friedman

You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.

Milton Friedman

Society doesn't have values. People have values.

Milton Friedman

A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.

Milton Friedman